Third-party impartial presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not any stranger to controversy. On Sunday, he posted a video to his X account relaying a narrative about how he as soon as drove a useless bear cub into New York Metropolis and left it in Central Park.
The video reveals Kennedy telling comic Roseanne Barr about how a motorist touring in entrance of him hit a bear cub. In accordance with Kennedy, he stopped and packed the cub into his personal automobile with the intention of skinning it and refrigerating the meat. (It’s authorized in New York state to choose up roadkill, however the police must be notified and one wants to amass a particular tag.)
“It was in very good condition and I was gonna put the meat in my refrigerator.” Kennedy explains to Barr within the video.
As Kennedy’s unusual story goes, he was busy falconing, time obtained away from him, and earlier than he knew it he was headed to dinner with pals in New York Metropolis—with a bear carcass within the trunk of his automobile. His pals, who have been drunk (although RFK Jr. says he was sober), thought it will be humorous to stage the useless bear in Central Park and attempt to make it seem like a motorbike accident, as Kennedy needed to catch a flight and couldn’t return the automobile to his house in Westchester.
The well-known anti-vaxxer says that whereas the incident remained a thriller for 10 years, The New Yorker was about to launch a narrative on the matter, which was why he’s giving his model of occasions.
None of that is shocking looking back. It’s simply the newest weird story from a weird candidate who has stated and accomplished weird issues. When Kennedy introduced his plans to run as a third-party candidate in October 2023, his Philadelphia press convention included a teleprompter mishap that completely encapsulated his unusual marketing campaign: every part was the other way up.
Kennedy’s complete marketing campaign has been a reckoning of his convoluted conspiracy theories round well being care, massive enterprise, and the federal government. Whereas he has lengthy promoted the totally debunked concept that the MMR vaccine causes autism, up to now few years Kennedy has gained traction with the right-wing crowd by encouraging the concept that the COVID-19 pandemic was an engineered occasion.
Kennedy was caught on digicam saying that COVID is “ethnically targeted,” and “spares Jews.” He has blamed faculty shootings on pharmaceutical medicine whereas mendacity about gun possession charges within the U.S. and Switzerland.
In latest months he has questioned the prosecution of Jan. 6 insurrectionists, and needed to retract false, conspiracy-theory-laden statements concerning the peacefulness of the mob that descended on the Capitol constructing.
All of that is capped off by Kennedy being pressured to answer stories that docs as soon as discovered a useless worm in his mind—actually.
Kennedy has persistently held low double-digit numbers in polls up by means of the start of June, however in latest weeks these numbers have plummeted. New York Instances/Siena polling from late July has Kennedy at 6% in a three-way battle with Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. The Wall Avenue Journal places his reputation in a nationwide election down round 4-5% (with an error margin of plus or minus 3.1 proportion factors).
Perhaps it’s time to launch one other push-up video.
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